This is why I don’t want my seventeen year-old daughter taking Uber alone. Most of those drivers are decent people, but you never know.
At least with a taxi, there are cameras and license numbers, etc.
I don't know about where you are, but there aren't cameras in taxis anywhere I've been. And with Uber and Lift the they know who the drivers are, and the passengers (they have to have a credit card on file). Unlike a taxi you get the driver's name and picture before he arrives. The truth is it's far more likely for the driver to be assaulted and robbed than the passenger in either venue. And since all the passengers are registered with credit cards it's much safer for the drivers than picking up anyone with a phone or flags off the street.
Can you get a woman Uber driver? Hopefully that would be more safe but who knows?